Since I bought a ChatGPT Pro subscription for the codex, I’ve been getting their daily proactive updates, which they call Pulse. As far as I understand, this feature is only for people on the 200‑dollar plan. And I have to admit, it’s a really cool thing, what they’re doing is just awesome.
I get the summary every day at 8 a.m., and it contains a few articles with generated images and, essentially, a proactively created new chat in ChatGPT. The trick is that without me having to write anything, ChatGPT itself picks personalized topics that are relevant to me, gathers info on the internet and from the sources I allowed it to access, and offers me tips and solutions to my current problems.
I gave it access to my Gmail, for example, and this morning in the digest it found an email with a message from Crashlytics. It said that I had a crash at work, in the iOS app, though I’m subscribed to updates there too. We just don’t have crashes on Android thanks to FlowMVI, only on iOS ;) Anyway, it sent me an article explaining this crash purely from the name of the class that crashed and a piece of the stack trace that was in there, with an explanation of how to fix this crash.
From the useful stuff Pulse has already sent me (I didn’t ask for any of this):
- an article breaking down a specific crash from Crashlytics based on an email from Gmail;
- the release announcement for Kotlin 2.3.0 RC2 with a short changelog;
- updates to Compose and Jetpack libraries from their website;
- how to test concurrency in FlowMVI with stress tests including ready‑to‑use code (I was struggling with multithreading yesterday).
- How to promote Respawn through integration with Google Assistant
- How to fix 3rd normal form in Respawn’s database
- How to promote FlowMVI at work and get stakeholder buy‑in (because I was researching library comparisons for an article?..)
- Marketing outreach strategies on LinkedIn for localization services (because I was doing outreach recently for market research)
My mind is blown, this is insanely cool, I really like it, and I haven’t seen anything like this anywhere else. This is an example of how AI products really should be built. You get something you never even knew you needed so much, to the point where your reaction is: “How did I even live without this?!”